khmer
IPA: kumˈaɪ
Root Word: Khmer
noun
- The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
- An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.
- A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Khmer people or their language.
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Examples of "khmer" in Sentences
- I don't know maybe some dead end khmer rouge or something.
- So I asked my co-teacher the other day how to say ‘vinegar’ in khmer.
- Tagged with apsara photos, devata photos, khmer temple photos, Preah Khan.
- Things are going well for the most part - but classes sure did fizzle every day that we got closer to our break for the khmer new year.
- We like to kind of hang out in the back of the house (where the cooking area is) and just try and talk and practice our khmer, and spend time with Darro.
- Then we saw some people and tried to ask them about where to find the waterfall (which was interesting b/c none of us knew the words for waterfall --- SOoo we just asked them where the “water pretty pretty” was in khmer.)
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